Today, two teams tried to tackle taboo topics too turbulent to transcribe. The titillating, transcendental triceratops, tirelessly tries to triumph, teeth taken task to task tail to tail. Together they tried to tie the two toucans to the timber to tell them two tall tales, till treelike tutors touched the tender tension to take the temperature.
The triceratops trio tripped. Tusk to tusk time to time tentatively tending to the titanic. They take the taxing test to truly test themselves, toe to toe, tip toeing toward the truth tiptoeing through, taking the taken to the tomb.
Nick Leininger is a local DC poet originally from West Chester, Pennsylvania. Nick graduated from American University in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations and Strategic Communications. Nick has 12 poems published across a series of anthologies and online magazines. His work is featured in Bleakhouse Publishing, Burgeon Online, Day Eight, The Mid Atlantic Review, and Wingless Dreamer. Nick’s poems explore the relationship between race and class, love and faith, and mental illness, as he analyzes a nation grappling with inequality, injustice, and systemic racism.
